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by will4274 5y ago
Unless you're speaking to a specialized audience, probably better not to. Language is about being understood, not being right. If you use a phrase that is commonly used incorrectly, and you use it correctly, and your audience misunders
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From the article: > there’s no evidence that Americans and Canadians are any safer from structure fires than our neighbors around the world Scott Alexander's recent article made me sensitive to the phrase "no evidence".
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Please read the link you included in your comment. There is no connection between democratic process and international law except that some of the nation states themselves are democracies. Note also that capital D Democratic refers to an Am
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Sure https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/cur...
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Some substantial portion of Americans poll as not owning guns but being glad their neighbors do. The reasons vary, deterring criminals and/or state authority often appearing. It's not surprising that some of these people use reddi
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And the free press, if we're talking about Australia. It doesn't count if one billionaire owns it all. Or being forcibly drafted by your government to spy on your employer.
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I'm not aware of any law that cannot be revised. Can you name such a country / law?
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> Years later it came out [...] Maybe. Wikipedia has a lot more to say https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash . More than a few folks quoted there seem to say that while this is what the final SEC report sa
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> you was [sic] carefully t rained to believe it. Please try not to be rude. I have decades of experience on Linux. I'm giving my good faith opinion. You won't get far in life by assuming those who disagree with you have been d
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There aren't any well curated package managers for normal users. Linux distributions like Debian barely make the cut for technical users, folks who are used to going to forums and finding alternative packages. Even so, Linux packaging
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These users don't know the difference between an exe and a mp3, come on. They'd figure it was auto starting iTunes. How do you expect a normal user to verify the contents of a CD?
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I don't see anything wrong with auto running a CD. I physically put it in the computer. And seriously, what security checks do you think a normal user is going to do between the pop-up appearing and clicking "run"? Edit: thre
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This article is perhaps interesting, but it is not well-written, nor, I would argue, particularly well reasoned. The author makes gratituous assumptions about Mike's reasoning, assumptions that appear unlikely to many readers, and fail
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I don't agree at all. The author doesn't mention filler content. He seems to implicitly assume that Mike's podcasts have no filler content. And he assumes Mike's motive to be trying to learn faster - rather than skipping
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> Windows have been teaching users to install from third parties ? Installing directly from the source instead of from an intermediary is good, not bad. Walled garden and 1P-only app stores are worse than the problems they fix. > adde
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Most Americans weren't openly hostile to China until Trump opened his mouth.
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Except that it isn't cancer. It's a headache. And sure, WebMD will tell you to call a doctor in case your headache is a blood clot. But most people just take aspirin.
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> My favorite DFW essay (out of oh so many) is "Tense Present"[3]. I bought the Garner because of it. Thanks for the recommendation. I laughed out loud at this line: > He's both a lawyer and a lexicographer (which seems
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Parent is saying that these platforms cater to left leaning reactionaries ("social justice warriors"), and that people on the opposite side (conservatives) are far more restricted, but most of the criticism comes from those same l
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It still doesn't follow. It's wrong to kill because of the harm killing causes. Whether the killing is done my an immoral or amoral agent doesn't change the effect. If you really believe dead rabbits is a bad result, you ough
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Libertarians don't agree that the inability to protect the environment makes their philosophy invalid either. The fact is though, most people look for reciprocatity in their moral philosophy. It's not that every individual has to
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> In short, I think killing another living being that experiences suffering is wrong. It fails Kant's categorical imperative. Animals aren't going to believe that eating meat is wrong - and if we tried to prevent animals from e
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? What's special about this version?
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I knew Biden's YouTube videos would get dislikes years ahead of time. It's hardly a shocking conclusion. He's old, boring, out of touch, and wildly disliked by both the far left and the entire right.
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Almost every single park in downtown Seattle and San Francisco is covered in drug users. It's been this way for about ten years now.
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> Reagan's notion that increasing the margins of the wealthy would induce them to pass profits to workers was mistaken in that its proposed mechanism was entirely altruism. No it wasn't. Reagan push to lower taxes so rich peopl
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> Maybe in some third-world crime infested countries? Like Seattle and San Francisco? This isn't a third world problem, unless you consider these cities to be third world.
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It's pragmatic in a thoroughly robotic sense. Most humans have this thing called empathy tho. > Unfulfilling and hopeless It's the human condition.
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What does big Pharma have to do with it? These drugs are incredibly addictive. So addictive that normal people throw their whole lives away from one course of painkillers. Your solution is to let people get them more freely. That means more
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> just giving him a goddamn prescription. You think we should just give them free drugs in addition to the housing and food we already give them? Because the drugs are cheaper than the robberies? Look, the simple fact is many people are

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